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        Ben Radford 
        Good self-esteem is something that everyone wants, most people have, 
        and yet most people think that others lack . . . >> 
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        the Deal with PMS? 
        David McGehee, Answer Guy 
        . . . he would likely have found that his 37 pieces of flair had suddenly 
        been caused to migrate from his suspenders to his lower intestinal region 
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      Where 
        are all the Skepchicks? 
        Michael McRae 
        We’ve all encountered the pop-psychology attitude that females 
        are more creative while males are more logical, that ‘men are from 
        Mars and women from Venus' . . . Just how realistic is this cliché? 
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       Culture 
        is Like Water  
        Darcie Hodgkins Langone 
        The United States in the twenty-first century is drowning in the sins 
        of the past. Before you get agitated about a skeptic using such a religiously 
        loaded term as sin, we must acknowledge that at times, religious discourse 
        is the only language we have in which to discuss historical events that 
        are beyond the pale of what we hope human behavior to be. >> 
      Do 
        Nice Girls Finish Last? 
        Lynette Davidson 
        On the other hand, it can be unpleasant to try to tell people that 
        this wonder herb is just another pretty flower; and maybe women are especially 
        eager to avoid this sort of awkward scepticism. And maybe this makes me 
        more vulnerable to quackery. >> 
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